Cen, a friendly panda, must fight the devil himself, who has stolen his piñata, and thus, the chance to have a great Christmas
Jordan’s imagery is exquisite and eloquent, concentrating on simple, repeated use of particularly poetic symbols and figures, a conglomerative effect of old Gustave Dore drawings, 19th century whatnot memorabilia, all fused to a totally aware perception. —Lita Eliseu, East Village Other
Magical enhanced 3D illusions never before seen on video! Set to captivating music recorded on Dolby surround.
This 14-minute animated video looks at the ways children and young people respond to grief, and what the adults around them can do to help. It gives parents and carers an insight into the process of grieving, its physical and emotional effects, and the special needs of children and young people.
Gwen is 11 years old. As she experiences her first excitements, she catches her dog laughing.
Mexico in the 90s. Alex, a 7 year-old boy and his little siblings are left in the care of senile Aunt Lola while their mother works as a host on a radio station. Alex misses his mother and along with his siblings, they listen to his mother’s show every night, building strange imaginary worlds through the stories they hear, the news, the radio soap operas and the religious influence of his great-aunt.
A middle-aged woman and her best friend rush to make her over for the anniversary dinner she’s sure her husband is surprising her with.
Everything always seems to work out perfectly for Peggy, but her social graces are put to the test when she throws a birthday party for her eight-year-old son.
A film in the “Out of the Inkwell” series, an early animated short from Max Fleischer.
When a girl walks out of her house, objects come to life. Some coins are followed by a purse, dices have a fight among themselves, a thirsty glass looks for some water. Those objects try to live their lives dealing with all this "tiny matters".
Omnibus film made in partnership between Studio 4C and Toyota. The shorts are the following: Time Master by Tatsuyuki Tanaka, The Door to the Future by Takashi Nakamura, Crazy Consumption by Sayo Yamamoto, The Last of the Flowers by Tomoyuki Niho.
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
"The Observer's Testimony" is an intense psychological video art piece fundamentally based on Slavoj Žižek's philosophical concept of Parallax. The work utilizes a split-screen format to simultaneously present the transformation of the same clay bust into two contradictory psychological realities: The Left Screen depicts the Hunter's (The Accuser's) hardening into a cold judgment and moral decay, conceptually justified by Murat Kaplan's facial analysis; while the Right Screen reflects the Victim's (The Innocent's) dissolution into helplessness, fear, and ultimate surrender. This organic yet unnatural transformation of the busts places the viewer in the irreducible gap between two contradictory testimonies. The core goal of the work is to demonstrate the impossibility of objective truth by proving that reality is entirely dependent on the observer's subjective point of view.
Debbie goes to Hell after committing suicide. Once there, she finds herself in the middle of a power struggle. The Devil asks her to get his horns back so that he can regain control of his realm.
Tom is anxious, he holds a secret in his human heart, a wing beat and a flutter and its bursting to take flight.
A fantastical world where cats become the characters we’ve always imagined from assassins to superstars.
Simmons, best-known for her photographs of miniature rooms populated by dolls and of oversized objects—such as a house, birthday cake, and pistol—balanced on female legs, both human and fake, brings these characters to life in a three-act mini-musical. The film is inspired by three distinct periods of Simmons’s photographic work: vintage hand puppets, ventriloquist dummies and walking objects enact tales of ambition, disappointment, love, loss, and regret. Working with composer Michael Rohaytn ("Personal Velocity") and cameraman Ed Lachman ("The Virgin Suicides" and "Far From Heaven"), Simmons’s puppets come to life in miniature domestic scenes that echo real life.
Two film enthusiasts who work for a boutique distribution company called Flicker & Fade meet Vince Miller, the elusive writer/director of 1979's The Easter Sunday Massacre, who, along with his film, hasn't been seen in over 40 years.
What happens when a little girl decides to save the dinner she refused to eat?
Joseph is mentally deviated. He is a prisoner of his own flat and always in permanent war with his own mind.